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Cecilienhof Vollkornbrot - The Bread to Honor the Potsdam Conference

October 16, 2013 - 3:17pm

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Cecilienhof Vollkornbrot - The Bread to Honor the Potsdam Conference

In September I offered this challenge to my fellow TFLers: to recreate an ancient grain bread I had enjoyed during my recent stay in Potsdam, in Cecilienhof Palace, where Churchill, Truman and Stalin met for the Potsdam Conference.

Several of you rose to the occasion, and came up with your own versions of this interesting bread.

Inspired by all this activity I sat down with my Breadstorm program to create my own formula. Except for the emmer, I had all the ingredients from the list in my pantry.

The bread turned out to be one of the best loaves I ever made, we absolutely LOVED it! Whether it was the complexity of the ingredients, or just an optimal process to develop and marry the different flavors I can't say.

It has to be one of the best tasting breads of all time in my book if yours is at all like mine turned out, Just delicious bread that one will have to make again and again - and very healthy and nutritious too.

That's a beauty, Karin! And quite a challenge, too. I've finally scrounged up the ingredients and plan to take a crack at this sometime in the next few weeks. Now that the weather has cooled here it's time to get out the Pullman pan and get back to some long, slow bakes. This is the perfect bread to start off the season. Here's hoping it turns out half as good as yours!

I want a slice so badly... I'm impressed that you were able to incorporate that many ingredients into your dough. There's no way can I get even a quarter of the materials in the original ingredient list. They're not available and/or too costly. Still, I'd like to try.

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